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Myers & Co. (Booksellers) Ltd.; Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd. Ten catalogues (five of the first firm and five of the second) of autograph letters, manuscripts, historical documents. The ten items are all in the same 12mo format, each stapled and in coloured printed wraps. Page range between 56 and 106. Internally good, with occasional chipping to the high-acidity paper wraps. Rusting staples. A total of c.4500 items, catalogued in detail by a pioneer in the field and a...	Book Trade History, Women	£100.00
Myers & Rogers, London booksellers, printseller and autograph dealers Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, comprising many rare Mezzotints, Stipple and Line Engravings by Faber, Simon, J. Smith, S. W. Reynolds, Edelinck, Marshall, Gaywood, Wierix, De Pass, Faithorne, Houbraken, Bartolozzi and others. [complete in 4 parts] 8vo: continuously pagined 1-187, followed by three pages of publishers' advertisements. A tight copy, in good condition, with the four parts (each of which retains its original orange printed wraps) bound together in contemporary brown cloth gilt and floral endpapers. An invaluable reference...	Art and Architecture, Book Trade History	£300.00
[Subject: Napoleonic Relics] John Thompson, Manchester Dealer[?] [Subject: Napoleonic Relics] Correspondence relating to various articles belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte comprising ALS from 'J Thompson of Manchester to John Crossley of Scaitcliffe Hall, with a provenance possibly in Crossley's hand.~[Autograph Letter Six pages, total, tipped onto a folio album leaf detached from album, numbered 235, with following description: "Correspondence relating to various articles belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte. Original Documents [NOT PRESENT] with translations. \| vide 305 [another album page presumably] for...	History	£180.00
N. Roqueplan, Theatre manager, editor "Le Figaro", author inc. "La Vie Parisienne" (1852). Autograph Letter Signed "N. Roqueplan" to an unnamed correspondent. In French. Two pages, 8vo, minor defedcts, text clear and complete, if somewhat illegible. He begins: "J'ignorais personellement monsieur, la Combinaison [locative?] dont vous avex ete vistime et je comprends fort bien que vous la trouvez mediocrement ingenieuse, vous nous avez habituee aux plus galant...	Book Trade History, French, Music and Theatre	£76.00
N.C. Tindal Autograph Letter Signed to J.[L.] Adolphus, barrister and author, friend of Richard Heber Chief Justice of Common Pleas (1776-1846). 2pp., 4to, expressing gratitude for his offer of help but feeling that his "friends are so very assiduous in the Committee Room" that it will be unnecessary. He would welcome his calling by if in the neighbourhood to answer enquiries and doubts.		£40.00
Nana Sir Ofori Atta (1881-1943), Member of Executive Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) Autograph Letter Signed ('Ofori /') to 'Mr. Parsons'. Written in green ink on one side of a piece of watermarked paper roughly 20 x 12.5 cm. Nineteen lines of text. Fair, on lightly-aged paper with a couple of pin holes. Heavily stylised signature with long gap between the 'O' and 'f' of 'Ofori'. He thanks him for the letter, and is 'very pleased...	Travel and Topography	£35.00
Nancy Astor and Margaret Wintringham The signatures of the above. Piece of paper, laid down on detached album leaf, c.4" x 3", with signatures only of Nancy Astor and Margaret Wintringham, the first and second women MPs, withe note giving that information.	Social history, Women	£80.00
[ Frederic William Goudy; Lanston Monotype Machine Company, Philadelphia; Bruce Rogers ] [ Privately printed memorial keepsake. ] Frederic William Goudy \| Art Director to the Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1920-1939, Typographic Counsel, 1939-1947. [ With advertisement for Bay Path Cover paper, in 'The authentic Goudy face'. ] 16pp., 4to. Stapled into light brown wraps, with 'GOUDY' nicely printed in dark brown decorative letters on front cover. In fair condition lightly aged and creased. Inscribed in a small calligraphic hand at foot of front cover to 'DE fr. WGT [W G Thomson?] xi.48'. A well-printed item, with two...		£35.00
[Irish Land Question, 1854.] Sir William Shee [Serjeant Shee] (1804-1868), English-born Irish Liberal politician and judge [Richard Cobden (1804-1865), Radical politician; James Johnstone (1815-1878)] [Irish Land Question, 1854.] Autograph Letter Signed from Serjeant Shee [later Sir William Shee] [to James Johnstone or Robert Knox?], regarding the parliamentary response to his speech bringing in the ‘amended Tenants’ Compensation (Ireland) Bill’. According to his entry in the Oxford DNB, Shee entered the House of Commons as Member for County Kilkenny in 1852, and promptly took charge of the Irish Tenant Right Bill. ‘On 16 February 1854 Shee brought in a bill which, with the exception of three clauses, was the exact counterpart of Sharman...		£150.00
Narciso Campero [BOLIVIA] Autograph Signature countersigning cheque. General (1815-96) and President of Bolivia between 1880 and 1884. Dimensions seven inches by three inches. Creased and with several closed tears, and with ink employed in printing cheque faded to purple and lilac. One edge perforated and with perforated numbers '17 x 6' (not affecting signature...	History, Military and Naval History	£100.00